The Weekly Six – 4/9/2010

A quick hit on this week’s hottest topics: The Weekly Six. If you missed out on what’s been going on this week, tune in to read about the hottest topics on the net – or at least the hottest topics to us. This is your chance to feel free to agree or disagree. And without further ado, in no particular order, behold the six!

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The  iPad

After months of hype, Apple released the suped up big brother to the iPhone.  It doesn’t make calls yet, but future versions of the device will have both wifi and 3G capabilities.  We have to hand it to Apple, they do know how to make a bright shiny object look cool. This slick looking gadget that will support streaming videos, act as an e-reading device and serve you the morning news via the internet.  But like all gadgets, it didn’t take too long before some kids learned how to take it apart.  Take a look at the young genius’s and their very instructional video revealing the complex inner workings of the iPad.

Instructional Series on How to Use Your iPad Properly

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Obama Signs a New Nuclear Weapons Treaty

Depending upon whether or not you remember the Cold War might play a role in whether or not you like the new treaty.  The most notable term of the new agreement is a ban on the production of new nukes which leaves room for the allowance of maintenance of older nuclear technology.  This is very much like banning the production of Deloreans, but allowing for flux capacitor upgrades just so Biff can steal the car and go back to 1985.  Do we really want to risk someone going back in time to create an alternate time line in the space-time continuum? I don’t think so.  Run for it Marty!

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Duke Wins the Tourney

Congratulations to Duke basketball for winning the NCAA men’s tournament earning Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski his fourth title for the program.  Okay with that, welcome back ladies.  We’re done living vicariously through freakishly tall adolescents…well at least until August when college football season starts up again and you lose us until after the bowl season is done.

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John Forsythe Passes Away

Actor John Forsythe, most famous for his roles on Dynasty and Charlie’s Angels has passed away.  Other Dynasty stars to also die this week, actor Christopher Cazenove, who passed away in a supporting role.

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Jesse James on Being a Neo Nazi

This week the spin begins on a photograph that surfaced on US magazine of Jesse James wearing a Nazi hat.  Lawyers in the James camp claim that it was a gag gift from a Jewish mentor. Other gag gifts from the mentor: ashes from Auschwitz prison, the bones from a slave from the civil war era and an unlit cross with a fresh supply of gasoline.

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Earthquakes

Apparently this is the week for global earthquakes. Mexicali registered a quake at 7.2 and Indonesia had one at 7.7.  The Russian judge was less kind giving Mexi-cali a 6.9 and Indonesia a 7.2.  The scores will be averaged in order to decide which country will win the Pat Robertson Cursed Nation Award.

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Until next week – C6M